Republican Voter Suppression Omnibus Thread

More on this, because it's important - it means Courts can stop many of these 'the legislatures can overturn the will of the people' laws that have been popping up to support minority rule:

“In its most extreme form, the Independent State Legislature Theory could have weakened the foundation of our democracy, removing a crucial check on state legislatures and making it easier for rogue legislators to enact policies that suppress voters and subvert elections without adequate oversight from state courts,” Abha Khanna, a lawyer who represented plaintiffs, said in a statement. “We are incredibly relieved that the Supreme Court decisively rejected this dangerous theory.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/27/moore-v-harper-supreme-court-rejects/

This is just a sample of the fuckery they've been up to in a county where Republicans often run unopposed.

Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones—Mike Lindell’s odd plan to stop election fraud

Much like the premise of 20,000 Mules, the strategy is obvious: Propose detecting election fraud by monitoring for Condition X, but make sure Condition X is something that is pretty much guaranteed to be true.

Fly a wifi-sniffing drone over any polling place, and you will find dozens of devices connected to the internet.

Fly a wifi-sniffing drone over literally any populated place other than an Amish village, and you'll find dozens of devices connected to the internet.

Oh, no. The Amish are just as connected to the web as the rest of the world. They just dress like they aren't.

And at Mar-a-Lago, most of them will be logged in to .ru domains.

Nah, they dress like they're on AOL.

https://x.com/noliewithbtc/status/1696630510221475937?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

https://x.com/noliewithbtc/status/1696886653506216221?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

We have to card all the darkies and brownies!!
That's where all the fraud comes from!
And dead people!
That just has to be a thing!

https://jaxtrib.org/2023/09/02/flor...overturns-desantis-map-empowers-black-voters/

https://boltsmag.org/iowa-warren-county-auditor-ousted-election-denier/

The group behind an Idaho ballot initiative that give up open primaries and ranked choice voting reports they've gathered 25, 000 signatures out of 63,000 needed to get it on the November ballot. They have until May 1 to gather more than 63,000 signatures statewide and gather signatures from at least 6% of registered voters in 18 different legislative districts.
The bug fuck nuts who have taken over the state Republican party are desperate to keep it off the ballot. They got a warning shot a few years back when 60% of voters approved Medicaid expansion. If the voting measure makes it on to the ballot it will only need 50% + 1. The fact is that Idaho is a conservative state and nothing is going to change that, it's just that it will be a reversion to a saner version of conservatism. I'm really hoping that Idahoans have had enough of the crazies. Non paywalled story link.

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/n...ida-woman-accused-of-voter-fraud/71128118007/

Florida drops voter fraud charges against 69-year-old woman

Here we go again:

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/10/oops-they-did-it-again-gopers-accidentally

Youngkin's campaign "accidentally" removed 3700 legitimate voters from the register, five weeks after early voting began for the General Assembly elections in Virginia. This would have been prevented if Youngkin hadn't pulled the state out of an Electronic Voter Register. One suspects this was only spotted and corrected because they got caught.

Ohio also purged 27,000 registrations claiming they were inactive, but at very short notice prior to early voting, and it's up to the voter to check if they were affected.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/18/voting-centers-naloxone-letters-fentanyl

Woodbury County supervisor's wife found guilty of 52 counts of voter fraud

Oh, another republican? Hey, @Steal Your Face when are we going to see some of these happen for the dems? Go to your mypillow guy and get that evidence for us. Show us where the dems are actually forging votes, and where these things are getting by because it seems like we are catching the people doing it, and they are the ones you support even though you refuse to admit to it.


At least this time it seems they might have at one point been aliens.

https://www.azag.gov/press-release/attorney-general-mayes-announces-grand-jury-indictment

https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgi...ellation-software/TBUCPK5GWZCKBDOJPZQPANOXCY/

A new Idaho law requiring college students to have an Idaho driver’s license or U S passport to vote in Idaho takes effect. Now if we could just do something about those darn Canadians who keep sneaking over the border to vote in our elections…

Was it Texas that back in the day said that college IDs (which have photos) couldn’t be used to vote but pistol permits (which don’t) could?

CCW permits have photos. My wife has one.

This was early Bush II years IIRC.

I’m actually surprised y’all still have permits for concealed carry.

Hers expired and at this point there's no use renewing since a permit is no longer needed to carry.

I never bothered getting one since I've never felt the need to carry one in the city.

Unable to attract the support of a majority of eligible voters, Republicans are left to try to rig the voting rules and exploit election loopholes. Put simply, to ensure their electoral survival, Republicans need to make it harder to vote and easier to cheat.
Their plan is simple and dangerous. First, Republicans want to make voting as difficult as possible for minority and young voters. Second, the GOP seeks to bolster the election denier movement to undermine the accurate counting and certification of election results.

Republicans Want To Make It Harder to Vote and Easier to Cheat - Democracy Docket


Already this year, Ohio enacted a law that shortens the period to apply for, and return, an mail-in ballot. It removes a day for early voting and severely restricts the use of drop boxes. Another portion makes it illegal for election officials to provide prepaid return postage for mail-in ballot applications or completed ballots. None of these provisions prevent cheating. All of them make it harder to vote.
Florida passed a law that hobbles nonpartisan organizations from registering voters and shortens the deadline to request a mail-in ballot by one day. Nebraska adopted a new voter ID law while Idaho banned college IDs as an acceptable form of identification to vote — despite having accepted them, without incident, for as long as Idaho has had voter ID. Georgia made it harder for cash-strapped counties to receive private funding to run elections.
North Carolina Republicans are poised to enact a new law that would require counties to adopt and deploy software to match signatures on mail-in ballot envelopes with the voters’ signatures on file. North Carolina law already requires voters to have their mail-in ballot signatures witnessed by two different people who then must sign the ballot return envelopes affirming under criminal penalty that they witnessed the voter sign it. In addition, the voter must include a photocopy of their valid identification.
There is simply no rational justification for also now requiring that the same voter’s signature be “verified” by software. It will not make the process more secure, but it will result in thousands of voters having their ballots rejected due to normal variations in their signatures and the inability of any signature verification system to accurately “verify” every person’s signature. History shows that minority and young voters will bear a disproportionate brunt of those mismatch rejections.
Rejecting lawful votes is not a byproduct of North Carolina’s new law. It is the purpose.

At the same time, Republicans are making it harder to vote through state laws, they are also redoubling their efforts to enlist the judiciary in this project as well. In Arizona, the Republican Party asked a court to eliminate early mail voting for most voters in Arizona. Over 80% of Arizona voters used an early ballot in the 2022 election. Its current mail voting system has been in place for over thirty years.
Similarly, in Pennsylvania, Republicans have repeatedly sued to repeal Act 77 — the bipartisan 2019 voting law that permitted no-excuse mail-in voting — because it makes it too easy for people to vote by mail.
Virginia’s MAGA governor changed state policy that had automatically restored the rights of formerly incarcerated individuals. The result will disenfranchise an estimated 312,540 Virginians — nearly half of whom are Black. At the same time, Republicans in Minnesota are challenging a new law that would enfranchise over 50,000 formerly incarcerated individuals.
Making it harder to vote is familiar territory for the GOP. Unfortunately, however, in 2024 it is only half of their strategy. The more dangerous part of the Republican plan is making it easier for them to cheat if they don’t like the results.

Nevada Republicans are suing to block a state law that prohibits interfering with or harassing election officials. This expands on their failed efforts in the courtroom last election cycle to facilitate harassing voters at the polls.
Texas enacted two new election laws that target Democratic stronghold Harris County, and only Harris County. Among the new provisions, one of the laws abolishes the office of county election administrator. Now, elections in the third largest county in the country will be divided between the tax assessor and county clerk. If the Republican governor doesn’t like how Harris County is running its elections, his handpicked secretary of state can take over election administration.
Republicans in Texas and North Carolina have successfully pushed through changes that will make it easier for them to place partisan operatives inside the polls. Republicans elsewhere are sure to follow.

For years, Republicans justified mass voter purges on the grounds that they want clean, up-to-date voter rolls. Yet eight Republican-controlled states have left the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) — an interstate compact that facilitates sharing voter information to avoid duplicate registration and voting. At least three other states are considering following suit. By any measure, leaving ERIC will make cheating easier and detecting fraud harder.
Exercising majority power with only the support of a minority of the electorate is the GOP’s paramount objective. To do that they need to rig the system. Claiming otherwise is just another in the GOP’s long list of lies they tell to undermine democracy.

Related:
"My guess for what happens next is that the newly conservative Ohio Supreme Court will use the opportunity granted to them by the U.S. Supreme Court to answer not whether the initial decision from last year was out of bounds of the court’s authority, but rather whether or not the map itself is legal. And, in an unfortunate theme that’s become all too common with an increasingly politicized judiciary, one election cycle can tilt how the rule of law functions. What that means for Ohio is that all the former dissenting opinions from the Republican state Supreme Court justices who were there last time will likely now become the majority opinion and Ohio Republicans will get a second shot at a gerrymandered map.
While I’m grateful that the U.S. Supreme Court gave us a reason to celebrate by meeting the admittedly low bar of dismissing a radical legal theory that would’ve upended our democracy, they also gave Ohio Republicans a sooner than anticipated go ahead to gerrymander our map again. And by tossing the case back to a newly ideologically conservative state Supreme Court that will likely rubber stamp rigged maps, it appears that Ohio Republicans will get away with having defied seven prior state Supreme Court decisions entirely unscathed."

U.S. Supreme Court Gives Ohio GOP Second Shot at Gerrymandering - Democracy Docket

Here’s an interesting case. The incumbent Ohio state representative failed to get on the ballot because redistricting confused petition signers as to which district they were in.



https://apple.news/ATEI4IkRjNJOxC74Z4SPFWQ

You’d think that the incumbent would be automatically placed on the ballot. But you’d be wrong.